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Hackers steal $23.7 million in crypto from Ostium in off-chain attack
The Ostium trading platform announced that an attacker stole $23.75 million from its liquidity provider vault last week, after compromising off-chain infrastructure used to feed prices into the protocol. [...]
Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief
Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain
'WP2Shell' Opens Millions of WordPress Sites to Remote Takeover
Barely three days after disclosure, attackers are widely chaining together CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030 to lob exploit attempts against one of the largest attack surfaces on the Internet.
Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity hit by sandbox escapes
Researchers escaped the sandboxes in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and Antigravity by having the AI agent write files that trusted host tools later run. Multiple CVEs, patches, and Google downgrading two Antigravity findings. [...]
JadePuffer agentic attacks now target AI model data with ransomware
The JadePuffer autonomous AI agent has upgraded with custom malware called EncForge that focuses on encrypting AI assets, such as training datasets, vector databases, and model checkpoints. [...]
Hugging Face Says Autonomous AI Agent System Breached Production Infrastructure
An AI-led cyberattack breached limited Hugging Face datasets and service credentials, while public models, Spaces and published packages showed no signs of tampering.
Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims
IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake
Flock Safety kills acoustic system designed to detect 'human distress'
"Community consultation" is one of the reasons automated license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock Safety cited in its decision to drop voice-oriented tech from a gunshot detection system.
Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid
Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy
Director of Commerce AI standards office out after three months
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation has quietly become a key hub for the federal government to assess potential threats and harms that AI systems pose. The post Director of Commerce AI standards office out after three months appeared first on CyberScoop.
New HollowGraph malware uses Microsoft Graph for stealthy C2 comms
A malicious component dubbed HollowGraph uses the calendar feature in compromised Microsoft 365 mailboxes as a command-and-control channel to receive attacker commands and exfiltrate stolen data. [...]
Exposed Server Reveals AI-Assisted Phishing Toolkit Behind WebDAV Malware Campaign
A malware operator left its delivery server wide open, and Rapid7 pulled down the whole toolkit: 1,048 files spanning lure templates, filename-spoofing tests, execution experiments, droppers, builder notes, and two campaign chains. One was already live against Windows users in Mexico, delivering an infostealer through a fake government ID-lookup site over WebDAV. What makes it more than a
Odyssey piracy scams appear within hours of the movie’s release
The release of The Odyssey has already sparked a wave of piracy scams, from fake browser errors to malware masquerading as movie files.
Hackers were inside South Korea's diplomat training system for 9 months
Unidentified hackers compromised an online education system used by South Korea's diplomatic academy, stealing personal information belonging to former and current employees of the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
OpenSSL Silently Fixes ‘HollowByte’ DoS Vulnerability
Attackers could send waves of malicious payloads to trigger buffer pre-allocations that are not freed, exhausting server memory. The post OpenSSL Silently Fixes ‘HollowByte’ DoS Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New HollowGraph Malware Hijacks Microsoft 365 Calendars for Covert C2 Communications
Researchers have linked HollowGraph malware to the Cavern framework after discovering its use of Microsoft 365 calendars and Microsoft Graph APIs as a stealthy C2 channel
20th July – Threat Intelligence Report
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 20th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Ernst & Young, a global accounting and professional services company, has disclosed a data breach involving a compromised third-party IT support platform. The exposed support tickets may have contained client documents, tax information, […] The post 20t
On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras
A recent story of a writer who was mistakenly identified, tracked, and arrested using data from Flock cameras has gone viral. The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM, not 34 10 DTM. But when the police report was created and the plate was entered into Flock’s system, it was just recorded as 34 DTM. Just the five large characters, no little number in the m
Hugging Face breached by autonomous AI agent
Hugging Face, the widely used platform for sharing open-source machine learning models and datasets, has disclosed a security breach it says was carried out by an autonomous AI agent system. How the attack unfolded In a blog post published Thursday (July 16), the company said that earlier that week, it identified unauthorized access to some internal datasets and to several credentials used by its
Microsoft confirms Windows Server Update Services sync delays
Microsoft is working to fix a known issue affecting Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) servers, which has caused synchronization problems for more than a week. [...]
A week in security (July 13 – July 19)
A list of topics we covered in the week of July 13 to July 19 of 2026
Meet Dusseldorf, Microsoft’s open-source out-of-band security platform
Out-of-band vulnerabilities surface when an application quietly reaches out to an external system during an attack, and capturing that traffic calls for infrastructure that many researchers assemble on their own. A new open-source project from Microsoft supplies that infrastructure in a package meant to run inside a private environment. Dusseldorf is an out-of-band application security testing pla
More alerts are making your team slower, and an outcome-based SOC fixes that
In this Help Net Security video, Thom Langford, EMEA CTO, Rapid7, explains why piling on more security alerts makes a SOC slower to respond. Attackers log in with stolen credentials and use trusted tools like PowerShell instead of custom malware. He shares a case where attackers called a help desk, reset a privileged cloud account, and exposed thousands of passwords in three minutes. Ransomware gr
Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-42533) has been discovered in NGINX, potentially allowing remote attackers to crash worker processes or even execute arbitrary code. The flaw, present in versions from 0.9.6 up to 1.31.2, arises from a specific configuration involving regex-based maps and string expressions. While F5 has released patches, researchers suggest that existing mitigations might not be entirely effective, emphasizing the need for immediate upgrades.